Target Corinth Canal 1940–1944

by - Platon Alexiades (2015, Pen and Sword) ISBN 1473827566Hardcover, 288 pages book is in English languageDescription: During the Second World War the Corinth Canal assumed an importance disproportionate to its size. It was the focus of numerous special Allied operatio ... Visit our page for this title

The Mathews Men

by - William GerouxSeven Brothers and the War Against Hitler's U-boats (2017, Penguin Books) ISBN 014310926XPaperback, 400 pages book is in English languageDescription: “Vividly drawn and emotionally gripping."—Daniel James Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat. One of the last unhera ... Visit our page for this title

False Flags

by - Stephen RobinsonDisguised German Raiders of World War II (2016, Exisle Publishing) ISBN 1925335151Hardcover, 336 pages book is in English languageDescription: False Flags tells the epic untold story of German raider voyages to the South Seas during the early years of World War II. In 1940 the raiders Orion, ... Visit our page for this title

Convoy Will Scatter

by - Bernard EdwardsThe Full Story of Jervis Bay and Convoy HX84 (2013, Pen and Sword) ISBN 1781593760Hardcover, 224 pages book is in English languageDescription: On 5 November 1940 the eastbound convoy HX 84 of thirty-seven merchant ships, escorted by the armed merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay was attacked in mi ... Visit our page for this title

Forgotten Sacrifice

by - Michael G. WallingThe Arctic Convoys of World War II (General Military) (2012, Osprey Publishing) ISBN 1849087180Hardcover, 292 pages book is in English languageDescription: Hitler called Norway the “Zone of Destiny” for Nazi Germany because convoys from Churchill's Britain and Roosevelt's United States supplied Stalin ... Visit our page for this title

Arctic Convoys 1941 - 1945

by - Richard Woodman (2007, Casemate Publishers) ISBN 1844156117Paperback, 532 pages book is in English languageDescription: During the last four years of the Second World War, the Western Allies secured Russian defenses against Germany by supplying vital food and arms. The ... Visit our page for this title

The Decoys

by - Bernard EdwardsA Tale of Three Atlantic Convoys 1942 (2017, Naval Institute Press) ISBN 1473887089Hardcover, 224 pages book is in English languageDescription: In November 1942, Britain and America launched Operation TORCH, the ambitious invasion of French North African colonies of Morocco and Algeria. To con ... Visit our page for this title

Long Night of the Tankers

by - David J. BercusonHitler's War Against Caribbean Oil (Beyond Boundaries: Canadian Defense and) (2014, University of Calgary Press) ISBN 1552387593Paperback, 368 pages book is in English languageDescription: Long Night of the Tankers presents a fresh account of a lesser-known but critical component of the Atlantic naval theatre during World War II. Using w ... Visit our page for this title

Imprisoned in the Caribbean

by - Ligia T. DomenechThe 1942 German U-boat Blockade (2014, iUniverse) ISBN 149175270XPaperback, 224 pages book is in English languageDescription: Winston Churchill recognized in his memoirs: "The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril" His fears would be re ... Visit our page for this title

Execution for Duty

by - Peter C. HansenThe Life, Trial and Murder of a U boat Captain (2006, Pen and Sword) ISBN 1844153223Hardcover, 256 pages book is in English languageDescription: Oskar Heinz Kusch, joined the German Navy in 1937. He worked his way successfully through naval college and eventually volunteered for duty in U boats ... Visit our page for this title

Smoke and Mirrors

by - Deborah LakeQ-Ships against the U-Boats in the First World War (2009, The History Press) ISBN 0752450557Paperback, 256 pages book is in English languageDescription: The Q-ship, an ordinary merchant vessel with concealed guns, came into its own during World War I, when used by the Royal Navy to trap and destroy Ge ... Visit our page for this title

Donitz's Last Gamble

by - Lawrence PattersonThe Inshore U-Boat Campaign 1944-45 (2008, Seaforth Publishing) ISBN 1844157148Hardcover, 208 pages book is in English languageDescription: By the end of 1943 the German submarine war on Atlantic convoys was all but defeated, beaten by superior technology, code-breaking and air power. With ... Visit our page for this title

The Cruel Sea Retold

by - Bernard EdwardsThe Truth Behind Monsarrat's Epic Convoy Drama (2009, Naval Institute Press) ISBN 1591141451Hardcover, 224 pages book is in English languageDescription: Bernard Edwards recounts the history that Nicholas Monsarrat used as the basis of his famous adventure novel, The Cruel Sea, which tells the tale of B ... Visit our page for this title

The Victory at Sea

by - W. S. Simsthe Allied Campaign Against U-Boats During the First World War 1917-18 (2012, LEONAUR) ISBN 1782820426Hardcover, 340 pages book is in English languageDescription: Victory snatched from imminent defeat This book by the American, Admiral Sims will be a revelation to many. The British public had no idea that by the ... Visit our page for this title

Blackett's War

by - Stephen BudianskyThe Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare Warfare (2013, Vintage) ISBN 0307743632Paperback, 348 pages book is in English languageDescription: A Washington Post Notable BookIn March 1941, after a year of devastating U-boat attacks, the British War Cabinet turned to an intensely private, bohem ... Visit our page for this title

U-Boats of the Second World War

by - Jak P Mallmann ShowellTheir Longest Voyages (2014, Fonthill Media) ISBN 1781551022Hardcover, 192 pages book is in English languageDescription: This is a gripping account, based on previously unpublished diaries and crew accounts, of life on German U-boats during the Second World War. It descr ... Visit our page for this title

Swastikas in the Arctic

by - Jak P Mallmann ShowellU-boat Alley through the Frozen Hell (2014, Fonthill Media) ISBN 1781552924Hardcover, 240 pages book is in English languageDescription: During the Second World War, the Arctic saw an unusually high intensity of action, adventure, excitement and tragedy, and Swastikas in the Arctic: U-b ... Visit our page for this title

The Baltimore Sabotage Cell

by - Dwight R. MessimerGerman Agents, American Traitors, and the U-boat Deutschland During World War I (2015, Naval Institute Press) ISBN 1591141842Hardcover, 280 pages book is in English languageDescription: By the summer of 1915 Germany was faced with two major problems in fighting World War I: how to break the British blockade and how to stop or seriousl ... Visit our page for this title

Trap the U-Boats!

by - Alfred F. B. CarpenterThe Zeebrugge Raid April 23rd 1918 by Alfred F. B. Carpenter & The Zeebrugge Raid a Short Account by Arthur H. Pollen (2015, LEONAUR) ISBN 1782824677Hardcover, 244 pages book is in English languageDescription: A desperate raid to save the merchant ships that supplied the Allied cause From the first months of 1915, when the Great War on the Western Front gro ... Visit our page for this title

War Beneath the Waves

by - Tomas TermoteU-Boat Flotilla Flandern (2017, Uniform Press) ISBN 191050064XHardcover, 352 pages book is in English languageDescription: Amid the stalemate of World War I, one area in which the German military could claim almost complete supremacy was beneath the ocean. In the four year ... Visit our page for this title

Hitler's Gray Wolves

by - Lawrence PatersonU-Boats in the Indian Ocean (2017, Carrel Books) ISBN 1510717765Hardcover, 288 pages book is in English languageDescription: Next to nothing has been written about the U-boat war in the Indian Ocean. This is the story of a forgotten campaign. The battle began in August 1943, ... Visit our page for this title

Hitler's Forgotten Flotillas

by - Lawrence PatersonKriegsmarine Security Forces (2017, Naval Institute Press) ISBN 1473882397Hardcover, 336 pages book is in English languageDescription: This study of the Kriegsmarine’s Sicherungsstreitkräfte, their security forces, fills a gap in the study of the German navy in World War II. This b ... Visit our page for this title

Shadow over the Atlantic

by - Robert ForsythThe Luftwaffe and the U-boats: 1943–45 (2017, Osprey Publishing) ISBN 1472820452Hardcover, 312 pages book is in English languageDescription: German U-boats were the scourge of Allied merchant and military shipping in the Atlantic during World War II, threatening to isolate and then starve t ... Visit our page for this title

U-boat 977

by - Heinz SchaefferThe Third Reich U-boat That Escaped to Argentina (2017, Naval Institute Press) ISBN 1784382493Hardcover, 224 pages book is in English languageDescription: This is the story of U-977, the German submarine that escaped to Argentina at the end of World War II. Before surfacing near the west coast of Africa, ... Visit our page for this title

Hitler's 'Wonder' U-Boats

by - Jak P Mallmann ShowellThe Birth of the Cold War's Hunter-Killer Submarines (2018, Naval Institute Press) ISBN 1526724804Hardcover, 312 pages book is in English languageDescription: Launched during the last days of the Third Reich in an attempt to restart the Battle of the Atlantic, the majority of these revolutionary Electro-U-bo ... Visit our page for this title

U-188

by - Klaus WillmannA German Submariner’s Account of the War at Sea 1941-1945 (2015, Frontline Books) ISBN 1848327609Hardcover, 240 pages book is in English languageDescription: Anton Staller was a U-boat lookout, rising no higher than Leading Seaman and his account of the war from the lower ranks is unique. He served on the T ... Visit our page for this title

Otto Kretschmer

by - Lawrence PattersonThe Life of Germany's Highest Scoring U-boat Commander (2018, Naval Institute Press) ISBN 1784381926Hardcover, 288 pages book is in English languageDescription: Otto Kretschmer was only in combat from September 1939 until March 1941 but was Germany's highest-scoring U-boat commander sinking 47 ships totaling 2 ... Visit our page for this title

The Battles of Coronel and the Falklands, 1914

by - Geoffrey Bennett (2014, Pen and Sword) ISBN 1783462795Paperback, 192 pages book is in English languageDescription: The defeat that Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock suffered at Coronel in 1914 at the hands of Maximilian Graf von Spee, one of Germany’s most bri ... Visit our page for this title

HMS Rodney

by - Iain BallantyneSlayer of the Bismarck and D-Day Saviour (Warships of the Royal Navy) (2012, Pen and Sword) ISBN 1848848706Paperback, 320 pages book is in English languageDescription: The Second World War battleship HMS Rodney achieved lasting fame for her role in destroying the pride of Hitler’s navy, the mighty Bismarck in a thr ... Visit our page for this title

The Sinking of the Prince of Wales & Repulse

by - Patrick MahoneyThe End of the Battleship Era (2014, Pen and Sword) ISBN 1844150755Paperback, 366 pages book is in English languageDescription: On the third day of the war with Japan, two Royal Navy capital ships were sunk off Malaya by air torpedo attack. They had not requested the air suppor ... Visit our page for this title